After the ship is abandoned, a new character emerges, Captain Silver.

Robert Lewis Stevenson, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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podcasts. And now Treasure Island, part four of seven by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

Part four, the stockade. Chapter one.

Narrative continued by the doctor. How the ship was abandoned.

It was about half past one, three bells in the seafrace,

that the two boats went ashore from the Hispaniola. The captain, the squire and I were talking

matters over in the cabin. Had there been a breath of wind, we should have fallen on the six

mutineers who were left aboard with us, slipped our cable and a way to sea. But the wind was wanting,

and to complete our helplessness, down came hunter with the news that Jim Hawkins

had slipped into a boat and was gone ashore with the rest. It never occurred to us to doubt Jim Hawkins,

but we were alarmed for his safety. With the men in the temper they were in, it seemed an even

chance if we should see the lad again. We ran on deck. The pitch was bubbling in the scenes.

The nasty stench of the place turned me sick. If ever a man smelled fever and dysentery,

it was in that abominable anchorage. The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in

the foaxle. A shore, we could see the gigs made fast, and a man sitting in each, hard by where the

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